Announcements

The DC Bar Association this month will present a seminar titled Technology Companies and Telecom: The View From the Outside ... for Now.
The program will take place on Monday, November 8 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the DC Bar Conference Center, 1250 H Street, NW, Washington, DC.
Serving as moderators are Jonathan Frankel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale...

The firm of Budd Larner, P.C. will present a software licensing seminar on Wednesday and Thursday, November 17 and 18.Peter J. Frazza of Budd Larner will speak on Keys to Negotiating Better Licensing Agreements.
Mr. Frazza will describe how to avoid litigation or exceptionally high licensing fees by negotiating more equitable contracts for software...

Video replays of Virginia CLE's 35th Annual Advanced Business Law seminar are scheduled this month at two northern Virginia locations.
Programs will take place on Tuesday, November 16 at the Radisson Hotel Old Town, 901 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, and on Wednesday, November 17 at the Executive Conference and Training Center 8201 Greensboro Drive,...

The Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) on Friday, November 12 will present a basic-level CLE course titled Sports and Entertainment Law.
Speakers will address a variety of topics including:
Torts and Sports: Where Do You Draw the Line? Antitrust and Professional Sports; NCAA Enforcement; Ethical Representation Of Professional Athletes; Record Industry Do...

The Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) on Tuesday, November 30 will present the 12th Annual Bradley J. Schaeffer Real Property Institute titled How to Get From Concept to Completion of a Large, Mixed-Use Project.
The program will take participants through a large hypothetical mixed-use project covering all aspects from contract, development, zoning,...

How Lawyers Can Increase Effectiveness and Enjoyment: Using Applied Ethics in Your Day-to-Day Practice is the title of an intermediate-level CLE seminar being offered this month by the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) in two locations.
The sessions will take place on Monday, November 15 at the Forum Conference Center, East 9th and St. Clair streets,...

The Sacramento Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel-America this month is offering a CLE seminar titled Revision of Workers' Compensation Laws.
The program will take place on Wednesday, November 17 from noon to 2 p.m. at a location to be determined.
Discussion topics for the luncheon session will include:
Key provisions of SB 899; Three new...

The San Diego Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel-America this month has scheduled its Annual Employment Law Update - New Developments Affecting California Employers.
The CLE session will take place on Thursday, November 18 from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at a location to be determined.
Speakers at the seminar will include David Geerdes of Heller,...

The American Corporate Counsel Association (ACCA) and the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) this month are offering a replay of their popular seminar, What the Board Really Expects From the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. The program was sold out in previous presentations in February and June.
The latest presentation will take...

Samuel J. Arena, a partner at Stradley Ronon Stevens and Young, LLP, has been named chair of the American Bar Association's Fidelity and Surety Law Committee.
Mr. Arena is chair of Stradley Ronon's fidelity and surety practice group and represents insurance companies in complex fidelity and surety matters, and insurance coverage matters and related...

Editor: Your law firm, Roach & Carpenter, has an interesting history. Would you tell our readers something about its origins and subsequent evolution?
Carpenter: Five of us, all women in the Civil Division at the U.S. Attorney's Office, left government service 15 years ago to start a law firm. It opened in September of 1989. Since that time, two...

Planning has begun for the fourth annual Mediation Settlement Day, which will kick off in New York City on Wednesday, October 13. Started by the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in 2001, the event aims to increase awareness and understanding of the mediation process as well as to increase the...

The Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel-America and the firm of Ford & Harrison this month are planning a CLE seminar titled Labor and Employment Issues in M&A.
The program will take place on Tuesday, October 26 from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at the Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City.
The session will focus on...

The firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is continuing its Intellectual Property & Media Law Lunch Series with a pair of seminars this month and next.
With the increasing complexities of intellectual property law and growing demands on in-house counsel, Weil Gotshal has designed this series to focus on current trends and developments in the law...

The firm of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP this month is planning a CLE seminar for employment counsel and human resources professionals titled Conducting Internal Investigations of Discrimination & Harassment.
The program will take place on Wednesday, October 27 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Kramer Levin offices, 919 Third Avenue, 37th...

The Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel-America (NY ACC-A) and the firm of Dechert LLP this month have scheduled a CLE seminar titled Ethical Issues Faced by Multinational Companies.
The program will take place on Wednesday, October 13 from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. at The Rainbow Room, Radio City Suite, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New...

Governing and Controlling Corporate Intellectual Property & Intellectual Property as a Profit Center is the title of a CLE planned for this month by the Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel-America and the firm of Goodwin Procter LLP.
The breakfast program will take place on Wednesday, October 27 from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at...

The firm of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP is resuming its series of breakfast and luncheon seminars covering topics of interest to corporate counsel.
All programs take place at the Brown Raysman offices, 900 Third Avenue, New York City. Breakfast programs run from 8:30 to 10 a.m., with registration starting at 8 a.m. Luncheon programs...

The treatment of computer-based information in discovery creates major challenges and risks for companies. These challenges will be examined this month by the Greater New York Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel-America at a CLE seminar titled Electronic Evidence Discovery: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You; What You Don't Know You Don't Know...

WESFACCA, the Westchester/ Southern Connecticut Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel-America, this month is planning a variety of CLE seminars on issues covering departmental management as well as areas of substantive law.
On Thursday, October 7, the chapter will present Preventing Preferences: A Bankruptcy Primer from 9:15 to 11:15 a.m. at...

Seventeen general counsel of major corporations and 18 leaders of major law firms will be featured this month at a CLE program titled Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel being presented by the Boston Bar Association and the Northeast Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel-America.
The program will be held on Wednesday,...

Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93A, the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, has grown to be one of the most important adjuncts to the litigation of personal injury and other insurance-related claims in Massachusetts. The provisions of General Laws Chapter 176D, the Unfair Methods of Competition and Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices in the...

Richard A. Soden, a partner at Goodwin Procter LLP, a prominent corporate lawyer, and a past president of both the BBA and the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association, took office September 1 as President of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Bar Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the BBA.
Mr. Soden's broad background in public interest work has...

Following a presentation by Beth I. Boland and R. Scott Henderson, co-chairs of the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Corporate Governance and partners at Bingham McCutchen, the BBA Council has voted to accept the Report of the Task Force on Corporate Governance.
Two of the action items contained in the report, the development of a process for the...

The New York State Bar Association recently received the 2004 American Bar Association Partnership Award which recognizes exemplary efforts of bar associations to increase diversity in the legal profession.
NYSBA President Kenneth G. Standard accepted the award on behalf of the Association during a joint luncheon of the National Conference of Bar...